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led up to this ipo, this public offering for facebook, many people may step out and say, wait a minute, look where the stock is ending today. the stock ending only up about a fraction of a percent just above that initial ipo offer price of $38. look, many would say it was a messy debut plagued by technical difficulties and not as much demand as everybody thought. we then saw other social media stocks tumble as well in sympathy for facebook. which everybody thought would really pop at the open. and it did. we did see facebook shares pop as much as 18% but clearly they are ending prett...

the lgbt community has been highly affected by budget cuts in services. new leaf services, which was a 25-year-old organization serving thousands of books dealing with substance abuse issues, closed this year. it closed. we have no place to refer lgbt people that is really, but -- really competent to deal with lgbt issues. david campos was able to -- i do not even know. thank goodness he did what he did. we're going to be spending money on tasers? let's put the community as a priority rather than tasers. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. my name is richard terry kotch. i am on t...

it always happens that way. we have had many things we could accomplish in san francisco, and we have not. how to do with the mentally ill. 10 to 15 years, there has been training available in northern california, but the police department says we have not got it done yet. how about the backlog of misconduct cases? how about the backlog of misconduct cases the experts -- cases? i'll give you a quote. there is a poster on the wall at the hall of justice. it shows a kid hitting somebody, and another kid picking somebody. the "is, "violence is learned and can be unlearned, and there is ...

-- get nervous and hold their thumb down. i am a great grandmother with a heart murmur. i want to know if police will be able to recognize that fact when we are protesting the future budget cuts that will be necessary to pay for these tasers. thank you. >> i am from north beach. during the 1990's, i probably attended 150 police commission meetings. i represented people in oakland before the police review board. we had some terminology, some of us who did cases. street justice is when a police officer, without taking somebody through the system, punishes the person physically or verba...

small size of the study, it did not have that much significance. both cannot be ruled out. the findings are also similar to a 2008 study where the officer sites they did not rule out an increase in death. there is some data in the study, one of which is that the death rate in the intervention department was lower by a factor of four. there was a suggestion that the departments that were there were not matched. in the study, they presented it that it was published and considered the last time. the last thing i will say, if you don't use it in legal situations, there doesn't seem to be...